CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION (CHICAGO POSTCARDS) VOLUME 13

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they embraced the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling “the peaceable kingdom.”

John’s writing appears regularly on many Internet sites. He has been translated into at least ten languages and has been regularly translated into Italian and Spanish. Several of his essays have been published in book collections, including two college texts. He has published a book, The Decline of the American Empire and the Rise of China as a Global Power, published by Constable and Robinson, London. John also writes book reviews.

Apart from his writing since retiring from the oil industry, John has taught university courses in economics, done a good deal of private tutoring, served as a professional newspaper restaurant reviewer (he likes cooking), followed his favorite hobby of photography, and created a popular family of image blogs on the Internet.

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INTRODUCTION TO CHUCKMAN'S COLLECTION - VOLUME 13

__________________________GENERAL NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT FIND WHAT YOU WANT WITH THE SEARCH FUNCTION (ABOVE), IT MAY STILL BE HERE. EXPERIENCE SHOWS THE FUNCTION IS IMPERFECT. USE THE TAGS ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF EACH PAGE OR SIMPLY SCROLL THROUGH THE PICTURES IF YOU WANT TO BE SURE WHETHER AN ITEM IS HERE.__________________________

HERE IS A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS ABOUT CHICAGO. MUCH OF THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT OF THE EARLIER POSTCARDS SURVIVED INTO THE 1950-60s, THE PERIOD OF MY GREATEST INTEREST.

INCLUDED ALSO ARE MENUS, MATCHBOOKS, AND OTHER ITEMS REFLECTING CITY LIFE, ESPECIALLY THE 1950-60s. IT IS HOPED THESE PRESERVE SOMETHING OF THE SENSE OF WHAT A SPECIAL PLACE THE CHICAGO OF THAT TIME WAS IN WHICH TO GROW UP.

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